[fpc-pascal] Printing terminal colors with writeln

[geneb]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2019, Ryan Joseph wrote:

> In C I can do:
>
> // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4842424/list-of-ansi-color-escape-sequences
>
> printf("\033[31;1;4mHello\033[0m");
>
> and get red text in the terminal (MacOS). When I do the same thing with 
> writeln and FPC it prints the literal characters with no colors. Why 
> doesn’t this work the same in FPC I wonder?

Because Pascal isn't C. :)

Try:
writeln(char(27) + '[31;1;4mHello' + char(27) + '[0m');

That might not work, but it's damn close to what would ;)

g.

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